"Imagine, with this World Cup, a Super Bowl every single day for five weeks," U.S. team captain Tim Ream told CBS News, adding, "It's not an accident that 5 billion people will be watching."

FOX and NBCUniversal have the broadcasting rights for the 78 games being played in the U.S., as well as the 13 apiece in Canada and Mexico. A record of 40 matches, or more than a third of the World Cup, will air during primetime on FOX, according to the broadcaster. 

For Spanish-language broadcasts, every single match will air on NBC-owned Telemundo and Universo.

All matches will also be available for on-demand streaming on several platforms. Here's what to know. 

How to watch the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup

Viewers with a TV antenna, or access to the FOX network channel through a smart TV, can watch 70 of the matches for free. The rest will air on Fox Sports 1, a cable channel.

Ninety-two of the 104 matches can be watched for free in Spanish on Telemundo. The rest of the matches in Spanish will air on Universo, a cable network. 

For cord-cutters, the World Cup opening match on June 11 between Mexico and South Africa, as well as the United States' opening match against Paraguay on June 12, were available to stream for free on Tubi, an ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox. 

All matches are available to stream through FOX One, the FOX Sports app, while Peacock has exclusive Spanish-language streaming rights. All matches will also be available on other streaming providers like YouTube TV, Fubo or Hulu + Live TV, for a subscription fee.

You can follow World Cup news and highlights throughout the tournament at CBSSports.com.

U.S. Men's 2026 World Cup schedule

The U.S. World Cup team are playing three matches in the group stage. Their Group D opponents are Paraguay, Australia and Turkey, in that order. 

In their first match on Friday, June 12, the U.S. defeated Paraguay 4-1 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

The U.S. defeated Australia 2-0 at Lumen Seattle on Friday, June 19, to clinch their spot in the Round of 32. The U.S. lost to Turkey 3-2 in their final Group D match at SoFi.

They will play their Round of 32 match on July 1 in Santa Clara, California, against Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

2026 World Cup broadcast schedule

The tournament began on June 11, with co-host Mexico playing the opener in Mexico City against South Africa. The U.S. and Canada played their first games a day later in Los Angeles and Toronto, respectively. The group stage was completed on June 27, and the knockout round began the next day. 

Here is the broadcast schedule: 

June 11

• Mexico vs. South Africa (Group A) — Mexico City: Mexico 2, South Africa 0 
• South Korea vs. Czechia (Group A) — Guadalajara: South Korea 2, Czechia 1

June 12

• Canada vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina (Group B) — Toronto: 1-1 draw
• USA vs. Paraguay (Group D) — Inglewood, California: USA 4, Paraguay 1

June 13

• Qatar vs. Switzerland (Group B) — San Francisco Bay Area: 1-1 draw
• Brazil vs. Morocco (Group C) — New York/New Jersey: 1-1 draw
• Haiti vs. Scotland (Group C) — Boston: Scotland 1, Haiti 0

June 14

• Australia vs. Turkey (Group D) — Vancouver: Australia 2, Turkey 0
• Germany vs. Curaçao (Group E) — Houston: Germany 7, Curaçao 1
• Netherlands vs. Japan (Group F) — Dallas: 2-2 draw
• Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador (Group E) — Philadelphia: Ivory Coast 1, Ecuador 0
• Sweden vs. Tunisia (Group F) — Monterrey: Sweden 5, Tunisia 1

June 15

• Spain vs. Cape Verde (Group H) — Atlanta: 0-0 draw
• Belgium vs. Egypt (Group G) — Seattle: 1-1 draw
• Saudi Arabia vs. Uruguay (Group H) — Miami: 1-1 draw
• Iran vs. New Zealand (Group G) — Inglewood: 2-2 draw

June 16

• France vs. Senegal (Group I) — New York/New Jersey: France 3, Senegal 1
• Iraq vs. Norway (Group I) — Boston: Iraq 1, Norway 4
• Argentina vs. Algeria (Group J) — Kansas City: Argentina 3, Algeria 1

June 17

• Austria vs. Jordan (Group J) — San Francisco Bay Area: Austria 3, Jordan 1
• Portugal vs. DR Congo (Group K) — Houston: Portugal 1, DR Congo 1
• England vs. Croatia (Group L) — Dallas: England 4, Croatia 2
• Ghana vs. Panama (Group L) — Toronto: Ghana 1, Panama 0
• Colombia vs. Uzbekistan  (Group K) — Mexico City: Colombia 3, Uzbekistan 1  

June 18

• Czechia vs. South Africa (Group A) — Atlanta: 1-1 draw
• Switzerland vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina (Group A) — Los Angeles: Switzerland 4, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1
• Canada vs. Qatar (Group B) — Vancouver: Canada 6, Qatar 0
• Mexico vs. South Korea (Group A) —Guadalajara: Mexico 1, South Korea 0

June 19

• USA vs. Australia (Group D) — Seattle: USA 2, Australia 0
• Scotland vs. Morocco (Group C) — Boston: Scotland 0, Morocco 1
• Brazil vs. Haiti (Group C) — Philadelphia: Brazil 3, Haiti 0
• Turkey vs. Paraguay (Group D) — San Francisco Bay Area: Turkey 0, Paraguay 1 

June 20

• Netherlands vs. Sweden (Group F) — Houston: Netherlands 5, Sweden 1
• Germany vs. Ivory Coast (Group E) — Toronto: Germany 2, Ivory Coast 1
• Ecuador vs. Curaçao (Group E) — Kansas City: 0-0 draw

June 21

• Tunisia vs. Japan (Group F) — Monterrey: Japan 4, Tunisia 0
• Spain vs. Saudi Arabia (Group H) — Atlanta: Spain 4, Saudi Arabia 0
• Belgium vs. Iran (Group G) — Inglewood: 0-0 draw
• Uruguay vs. Cape Verde (Group H) — Miami: 2-2 draw
• New Zealand vs. Egypt (Group G) — Vancouver: Egypt 3, New Zealand 1

June 22

• Argentina vs. Austria (Group J) — Dallas: Argentina 2, Austria 0 
• France vs. Iraq - (Group I) — Philadelphia: France 3, Iraq 0
• Norway vs. Senegal (Group I) — New York/New Jersey: Norway 3, Senegal 2
• Algeria vs. Jordan (Group J) — San Francisco Bay Area: Algeria 2, Jordan 1

June 23

• Portugal vs. Uzbekistan (Group K) — Houston: Portugal 5, Uzbekistan 0
• England vs. Ghana (Group L) — Boston: 0-0 draw
• Panama vs. Croatia (Group L) — Toronto: Croatia 1, Panama 0
• Colombia vs. DR Congo (Group K) — Guadalajara: Colombia 1, DR Congo 0

June 24

• Canada vs. Switzerland (Group B) — Vancouver: Switzerland 2, Canada 1
• Bosnia and Herzegovina vs. Qatar (Group B) — Seattle: Bosnia and Herzegovina 3, Qatar 1
• Morocco vs. Haiti (Group C) — Atlanta: Morocco 4, Haiti 2
• Scotland vs. Brazil (Group C) — Miami: Brazil 3, Scotland 0
• Mexico vs. Czechia (Group A) — Mexico City: Mexico 3, Czechia 0
• South Korea vs. South Africa (Group A) — Monterrey: South Africa 1, South Korea 0

June 25

• Curaçao vs. Ivory Coast (Group E) — Philadelphia: Ivory Coast 2, Curaçao 0
• Ecuador vs. Germany (Group E) — New York/New Jersey: Ecuador 2, Germany 1 
• Tunisia vs. Netherlands (Group F) — Kansas City: Netherlands 3, Tunisia 1
• Japan vs. Sweden (Group F) — Dallas: 1-1 draw
• USA vs. Turkey (Group D) — Inglewood: Turkey 3, USA 2
• Paraguay vs. Australia (Group D) — San Francisco Bay Area: 0-0 draw

June 26

• Norway vs. France (Group I) — Boston: France 4, Norway 1
• Senegal vs. Iraq (Group I) — Toronto: Senegal 5, Iraq 0
• Uruguay vs. Spain (Group H) — Guadalajara: Spain 1, Uruguay 0
• Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia (Group H) — Houston: 0-0 draw
• New Zealand vs. Belgium (Group G) — Vancouver: Belgium 5, New Zealand 1
• Egypt vs. Iran (Group G) — Seattle: 1-1 draw

June 27

• Panama vs. England (Group L) — New York/New Jersey: England 2, Panama 0
• Croatia vs. Ghana (Group L) — Philadelphia: Croatia 2, Ghana 1
• Colombia vs. Portugal (Group K) — Miami: 0-0 draw
• DR Congo vs. Uzbekistan (Group K) — Atlanta: DR Congo 3, Uzbekistan 1
• Algeria vs. Austria (Group J) — Kansas City: 3-3 draw
• Jordan vs. Argentina (Group J) — Dallas: Argentina 3, Jordan 1

2026 World Cup knockout stage schedule

Round of 32:

June 28

• South Africa vs. Canada — Inglewood: Canada 1, South Africa 0

June 29

• Brazil vs. Japan — Houston (Match 76): Brazil 2, Japan 1
• Germany vs. Paraguay — Boston (Match 74): Germany 1 (3), Paraguay 1 (4)
• 9 p.m. ET — Netherlands vs. Morocco — Guadalupe, Mexico (Match 75): Netherlands 1 (2), Morocco 1 (3)

June 30

• Ivory Coast vs. Norway — Dallas (Match 78): Ivory Coast 1, Norway 2
• France vs. Sweden — New Jersey (Match 77): France 3, Sweden 0
• Mexico vs. Ecuador — Mexico City (Match 79): Mexico 2, Ecuador 0

July 1

• 12 p.m. ET — England vs DR Congo — Atlanta (Match 80) [FOX, Telemundo]
• 4 p.m. ET — Belgium vs Senegal — Seattle (Match 82) [FS1, Telemundo]
• 8 p.m. ET — U.S. vs Bosnia and Herzegovina — San Francisco-Bay Area (Match 81) [FOX, Telemundo]

July 2

• 3 p.m. ET — Spain vs Austria— Los Angeles (Match 84) [FOX, Telemundo]
• 7 p.m. ET — Portugal vs Croatia — Toronto (Match 83) [FOX, Telemundo]
• 11 p.m. ET — Switzerland vs Algeria — Vancouver (Match 85) [FS1, Telemundo]

July 3

• 2 p.m. ET — Australia vs. Egypt — Dallas (Match 88) [FOX, Telemundo]
• 6 p.m. ET — Argentina vs. Cape Verde — Miami (Match 86) [FOX, Telemundo]
• 9:30 p.m. ET — Colombia vs. Ghana — Kansas City (Match 87), Telemundo]

Round of 16:

July 4

• 1 p.m. ET — Canada vs. Morocco— Houston (Match 90) [FOX, Telemundo]
• 5 p.m. ET — Paraguay vs. France — Philadelphia (Match 89) [FOX, Telemundo]

July 5

• 4 p.m. ET — Brazil vs. Norway — New Jersey (Match 91) [FOX, Telemundo]
• 8 p.m. ET — Mexico vs. Match 80 winner — Mexico City (Match 92) [FOX, Telemundo]

July 6

• 3 p.m. ET — March 83 winner vs. Match 84 winner — Dallas (Match 93) [FOX, Telemundo]
• 8 p.m. ET — Match 81 winner vs. Match 82 winner — Seattle (Match 94) [FOX, Telemundo]

July 7

• 12:00 p.m. ET — Match 86 winner vs. Match 88 winner — Atlanta (Match 95) [FOX, Telemundo]
• 4:00 p.m. ET — Match 85 winner vs. Match 87 winner — Vancouver (Match 96) [FOX, Telemundo]

Quarterfinals:

July 9

• 4 p.m. ET — Match 89 winner vs. Match 90 winner — Boston (Match 97) [FOX, Telemundo]

July 10

• 3 p.m. ET — Match 93 winner vs. Match 94 winner — Los Angeles (Match 98) [FOX, Telemundo]

July 11

• 5 p.m. ET — Match 91 winner vs March 92 winner — Miami (Match 99) [FOX, Telemundo]
• 9 p.m. ET — Match 95 winner vs. Match 96 winner — Kansas City (Match 100) [FOX, Telemundo]

Semifinals:

July 14

• 3:00 p.m. ET — Winner 97 vs. Winner 98 — Dallas (Match 101) [FOX, Telemundo]

July 15

• 3 p.m. ET — Winner 99 vs. Winner 100 — Atlanta (Match 102) [FOX, Telemundo]

Third-place match, July 18:

• 5 p.m. ET — Miami [FOX, Telemundo]

World Cup Final, July 19:

• 3 p.m. ET — Metlife Stadium in New Jersey [FOX, Telemundo]

Alex Bregman, Michael Busch and Pete Crow-Armstrong added homers to help the Cubs win for the 10th time in 12 games.

Fernando Tatis Jr. hit two home runs and Manny Machado and Gavin Sheets also went deep as San Diego dropped its fourth straight after a four-game winning streak.

Swanson hit a solo home run off JP Sears (1-1) in the second to give the Cubs the lead for good, then added a two-run shot off Ron Marinaccio in the fifth. He finished 3 for 4 with his second multi-homer game in less than a week — he hit two in the opening game of a doubleheader at the New York Mets on June 24.

Javier Assad gave up Sheets' three-run homer and Tatis' second solo shot in the eighth to make it a two-run game, but the Padres couldn't get closer. Ryan Rolison got the final out for his first save.

Matthew Boyd (3-1) gave up both San Diego homers in the first five innings, and surrendered three runs and eight hits while striking out two.

Tatis led off and knocked Boyd's fifth pitch over the left-field bleachers onto Waveland Avenue, before Chicago answered in the bottom of the inning when Seiya Suzuki scored on Carson Kelly's RBI single.

Bregman came up two spots after Swanson and hit a three-run homer in the second. Machado drove in two with his 16th home run in the third. Busch hit a solo shot and Ian Happ singled to chase Sears in the fifth, and Swanson greeted Marinaccio with his 13th home run.

Crow-Armstrong added his 18th of the year — and 11th in the month of June — an inning later.

Sears, making his second start of the season, gave up eight hits — including Chicago's first three homers — and six earned runs while walking three and striking out four.

It was 92 degrees (33 Celsius) with a 19 mph wind blowing out at the first pitch for a game in which the teams combined 26 hits and nine home runs.

Up next

San Diego's Walker Buehler (5-3, 3.81 ERA) faces fellow RHP Colin Rea (5-5, 4.80) in Wednesday afternoon's series finale.

Fans of Team Mexico filled a venue in Aurora, Illinois, turning it into a sea of green, white, and red as they took on Ecuador.

A mariachi national anthem got the party started for Mexico fans at the RiverEdge Park.

"The environment, we want to be with our people with our community. We want to scream altogether," said Berenice Quezada.

"I think Mexico is going to come out with the win, yeah," said Xavier Cepeda.

The cheers could be heard across the park as families and friends gathered to watch one of the biggest matches of the World Cup so far—Mexico versus Ecuador.

The rivalry is so intense that overnight in Mexico, fans played instruments, sang, and made as much noise as possible outside the Ecuador team hotel to deprive the squad of sleep. 

Back home in Aurora, fans are just as serious

Mexico's fans are passionate and proud of everything their team is doing on the pitch, and they are in a bit of a battle themselves with the extreme heat. 

"I'm glad they did this because we are able to bring the kids. If we were at a bar it would just be us adults," said George Gudino. "My son here, he's a big fan, and he's super excited

Fans said rain or shine, or as in this week's case the heat, nothing was going to stop them from cheering on their team, hopefully into the next round.

The dangerous temperatures also brought out Chicago paramedics, firefighters, and local volunteers who are working around the clock to respond to heat-related emergencies.

As temperatures soar, something as simple as a bottle of water can make all the difference. Volunteers with Englewood First Responders know that firsthand.

They started handing out dozens of water bottles on Tuesday to anyone driving by down Halsted.

"We are going to ride through the community to see who is dehydrated, who needs waters," said Charles McKenzie, executive director.

The rest of the water was handed out throughout the neighborhood at eight different stops.

"We are dealing with people that have high blood pressure, low sugar, like people with mental issues, and people who cannot go out and get water," McKenzie said.

Volunteers with the nonprofit are trying to prevent Chicagoans from having to call 911, but the Chicago Fire Department says those calls are happening.

"Both of our ambulances they've been out all day long," said CFD Deputy District Chief Shun T. Haynes.

Citywide, CFD says EMS responded to 25 heat-related calls on Monday, and another 11 on Tuesday. Haynes says at the Calumet Park fire station, the two ambulances alone have gone on over 20 runs each day.

"I make sure that they all kinda visit the senior buildings within that area to make sure that the air conditioning is working, it's working properly, and that they're ok," he said.

On Tuesday, almost 2,000 ComEd customers were without power across the Chicago area—a major concern Haynes has for senior living facilities and high-rises.

"When the power goes out, the elevator goes out if they don't have a backup generator," he said.

As for the volunteers, the goal is simple—help someone stay safe before the heat turns into an emergency.

"We saw a lot of seniors that were walking past, on the bus, going to the pharmacy, getting their medicine, and they was grateful, they was like 'oh my god, thank you,'" McKenzie said.

During the incident, a reporter and photographer were approached by three men, one with a dog, before their news truck and gear were destroyed. 

Witnesses describe a white tow truck pulling up to the Adler Planetarium as our team was preparing for a live shot for the second half of the 4 p.m. newscast. During the interaction, the dog was ordered to intimidate or possibly attack our crew. The dog did not obey the commands.

Witnesses who saw what was happening said the attack was racially motivated, as slurs were being directed towards the photographer, who is an African American man.

"I think it's a hate crime," one witness said. "I believe anybody that uses a racial slur is committing a hate crime."

Another witness, who wanted to remain anonymous for safety, said he saw the incident as it happened. He said he and his wife saw the CBS News Chicago crew setting up. Before they were able to do their story on the hot weather, he said he saw the dog running towards them, described as a German Shepherd.

"And then the guy was yelling at his dog to attack. He was throwing racial slurs [N-word] at the cameraman and then he started kicking his dog," he said.

The witness says he and his wife tried to diffuse the situation but backed down when the photographer hit the attacker with a folding stool.

"And he swung it and hit the guy in the head. And he was unfazed. Like, he got hit hard by that chair. For good reason, and it didn't even, like, flinch him, and I think he hit him again, if I remember correctly, he hit him again and he's still unflinched, and I'm like, this guy is, like. He's on something." He's gotta be," he said.

Both the reporter and photographer were unharmed.

The same three people in the same tow truck were later arrested less than half an hour after Chicago police said they were pointing weapons at people in Brighton Park.

"We didn't see any guns in that moment, but to know that it escalated to that, or it could have been that, is just terrifying," another witness said.

CBS News Chicago uncovered an image of a gun that was posted on social media just a few hours before the attack by a man believed to be one of the suspects.

Neither of the suspects was officially charged as of Tuesday afternoon. As charges are pending, we dug into the criminal histories of all three men—each with a violent history of charges for using a tow truck to commit another crime. 

One had an active warrant out for their arrest. The second has an order of protection filed against them for threatening to burn a woman's home down and breaking windows while children were present. The last was previously sentenced to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for aggravated battery with a firearm.

CBS News Chicago legal analyst Irv Miller explained that the state's attorney's office is likely considering a hate crime charge as the only detainable offence for what happened to our crews near the planetarium.

"Aggravated assault is a misdemeanor. However, if hate crime is also added, that makes hate crime a felony, which, by the way, makes it a detainable offense under the Pretrial Safety Act," he said.

Miller says the fact there are three people makes it harder for the state's attorney's office to distinguish who did what and how to charge accordingly. 

Early Monday morning, city leaders and first responders will hold a press conference to inform people how to stay cool and safe throughout the week. Air conditioning will be in demand.

"In chicago, when it's, when it's, when it gets hits in the 90s, it feels like it's in the hundreds, right? It gets muggy, humid. I know I personally can't fall asleep if it's over like 75, 76," said Robert Magiet.

Magiet, a Chicago restaurant owner, says he'll buy 30 air conditioners on Monday and give them away to people who need them—a gesture he's repeated during past heat waves. He says people were skeptical of the giveaways at first, but were grateful when he followed through on his promise.

"I just couldn't imagine not having air conditioning," he said.

For this year's 55th annual Pride Parade on Sunday, organizers were prepared, with six cooling buses stationed along the parade route. Chicago Fire says they responded to 39 calls for service at the parade, and 16 were taken to the hospital, but it is unclear if either of those were heat-releated.

Meanwhile, inside Chicago's Office of Emergency Management, they are already gearing up for what the heat may bring.

Six cooling centers across Chicago will be available, including:

• Auburn Gresham Center – 1140 W. 79th Street  
• Garfield Center – 10 S. Kedzie Ave. 
• King Center – 4314 S. Cottage Grove  
• North Area Center – 845 W. Wilson Ave.  
• South Chicago Center – 8650 S. Commercial Ave.  
• Trina Davila Center – 4312 W. North Ave.  

Along with the cooling centers, pools and splash pads will also be available, and well-being checks for friends and loved ones are available through 311. The elderly and those with pre-existing conditions are especially at risk.

"Heat is definitely a more insidious type of a weather phenomenon, but it really is lethal, it can be, so it's important to plan ahead," said Dr. Sheetal Rao with UI Health.

Chicago Park District fieldhouses, Chicago police stations, and library branches are also options that anyone can use to cool off.

Erick Fedde (3-6) allowed three runs in five innings for Chicago, which extended its lead atop the AL Central to two games over Cleveland. Tyler Schweitzer worked the final four innings for his first career save.

Orioles starter Trey Gibson (1-3) yielded eight runs, seven hits and six walks in 2 2/3 innings. He struck out five.

Chicago went 13-12 in June, making this the first time the White Sox have managed back-to-back winning months since 2021. They had a winning record in every month that year.

The game was tied at 1 entering the third, and then the first seven Chicago batters came around to score. After a single by Andrew Benintendi, Montgomery connected for this 21st homer of the year, a 440-foot shot to right-center.

Two walks later, Tristan Peters blooped a single to load the bases. Jacob Gonzalez followed with a two-run single, and then Perez's 409-foot three-run homer made it 8-1.

Benintendi opened the scoring with an RBI double in the first, and Baltimore tied it in the bottom of that inning on Samuel Basallo's single.

Gonzalez doubled home a run in the fourth to make it 9-1. The Orioles scored twice in the fifth on an RBI double by Dylan Beavers and a run-scoring single by Pete Alonso.

Benintendi and Gonzalez finished with three hits apiece.

Up next

The White Sox go for a three-game sweep in Wednesday's matinee. Noah Schultz (2-4, 5.82) takes the hill for the South Siders, and the O's had not announced a starter.

In addition to the state's nearly $56 billion fiscal year 2027 budget being implemented and the 1-cent motor fuel tax increase being suspended for the remainder of the year, 14 news laws will go into effect on Wednesday.

New regulations on prediction markets also go into effect on the first of the month, prompting a lawsuit against the state by Kalshi.

Cocktails-to-go

A pandemic-era allowance is now law six-and-a-half years later. Senate Bill 618 makes cocktails-to-go permanent.

Illinois lawmakers passed legislation during the pandemic that allowed restaurants and bars to sell cocktails and mixed drinks for pickup or delivery as businesses were closed to in-person customers. That will be allowed to continue permanently under the new law.

AI and bullying

Posting unauthorized artificial intelligence images can be considered cyberbullying in Illinois schools under House Bill 3851. This includes posting or distributing sexual images. Creating sexual images of children can also be charged under the state's child pornography laws under a law passed in 2025.

"Many people are using AI to produce harmful materials, which has led to a whole new level of cyberbullying," Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel, D-Shorewood, who sponsored the bill, said in a statement. "We cannot let our laws fall behind technology. This legislation helps our state meet current challenges and ensures bullying via AI is addressed in the school code."

Illinois lawmakers have broadly sought to regulate artificial intelligence, including its presence in schools.

Department of Early Childhood

The new Department of Early Childhood will officially launch on July 1, completing one of Gov. JB Pritzker's top priorities of his second term.

Senate Bill 1 to create the new agency passed the General Assembly with bipartisan support in 2024 and calls for consolidating a variety of early childhood services that are spread across multiple state agencies under one roof. Those include oversight and funding of preschools, childcare centers, home visiting and early intervention programs.

Pritzker tapped Teresa Ramos to direct the agency. She worked in childcare advocacy before joining the governor's office's education policy team.

Lawmakers appropriated $2.1 billion from the General Revenue Fund to the new agency in fiscal year 2027, which also begins July 1.

Contraband report

The Department of Corrections will have to report more information about contraband in its facilities as the department continues to face scrutiny around substance exposures. Senate Bill 2201 requires the department to annually report data about what contraband is found, where it was discovered, how it got into the facility, and any disciplinary action that was taken as a result.

It also requires IDOC to report on medical responses and hospitalizations for staff members, including the cause.

Statewide public defender

The bricks of the new Office of State Public Defender can begin being laid on July 1, as House Bill 3363 requires an 11-member commission to be appointed by Oct. 1. The commission will identify the costs and funding sources to establish the Office of State Public Defender. The remainder of the bill, including additional processes to set up the office, will take effect Jan. 1.

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In a divided decision in the case Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court split 6-3 in finding that Mr. Trump's policy is unlawful. Five of the justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson — agreed that Mr. Trump's executive order violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately to say he believes the order violates federal law.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

With the decision, the Supreme Court has now invalidated a second of Mr. Trump's signature initiatives from his second term, joining its ruling striking down many of his tariffs in February. The president signed his directive aiming to restrict birthright citizenship on his first day back in the White House as part of a sweeping crackdown on immigration.

"Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land,'" Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. "We keep that promise today."

Thomas, joined by Gorsuch, argued that the majority's account of the history of the rule for American citizenship "is not historically accurate."

"The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President's Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens," he wrote. "In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support."

Trump's order

A cornerstone of Mr. Trump's immigration agenda, his executive order sought to deny automatic American citizenship to babies born to parents in the country illegally or temporarily. The order would have upended the long-held interpretation of the Constitution's Citizenship Clause as granting citizenship to almost all people born in the U.S.

But the directive never took effect, since it was blocked by every federal court that examined it.

In response to the Supreme Court's decision, Mr. Trump urged Congress to take action to restrict birthright citizenship. But given the conclusion from the five-justice majority that the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship, a constitutional amendment would likely be needed to restrict it.

"The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process," he wrote on Truth Social. "No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!"

The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." Congress codified that language in federal immigration law, first in 1940 through the Nationality Act, and again in 1952 in the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The Supreme Court considered the meaning of the clause in a landmark case in 1898 and affirmed the rule of citizenship by birth, with rare exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats, occupying armies and members of Native American tribes. Congress in 1924 enacted legislation conferring citizenship on all Native Americans born in the U.S.

Still, Mr. Trump's executive order sought to change the long-held definition of who is an American. The president and his administration argued that unrestricted birthright citizenship has served as a powerful incentive for illegal immigration and birth tourism. They said the Citizenship Clause has been misread since the mid-20th century.

While the administration said Mr. Trump's measure would have applied only prospectively, the effects would have been far-reaching. An estimated 250,000 babies born in the U.S. would be denied citizenship each year under the executive order, according to the Migration Policy Institute and Penn State's Population Research Institute.

In a sign of the case's importance to Mr. Trump, he attended the oral arguments in April, becoming the first sitting president in modern history to view such proceedings at the high court. Still, the president indicated in social media posts across the past few months that he believed he may not prevail before the Supreme Court.

Mr. Trump's executive order was met almost immediately with legal challenges in courts across the country. Judges in New Hampshire, Washington, Massachusetts and Maryland quickly blocked enforcement of the policy nationwide.

The Trump administration pursued emergency appeals of those decisions, eventually landing the issue before the Supreme Court last year. But those cases involved the scope of the lower court orders, known as nationwide injunctions, and not the legality of Mr. Trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship.

After the high court curbed lower courts' ability to issue nationwide injunctions, another challenge was filed in New Hampshire on behalf of all children who would be covered by the birthright citizenship policy. It was that case that landed before the high court, though in this instance, the justices weighed whether it violated federal law or the Constitution.

Writing for the majority, Roberts, in reference to the 1898 case called United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 
said the Supreme Court's holding then "was simple: the Citizenship Clause incorporated the common law and granted citizenship to nearly all children born in the United States. Not surprisingly, then, in the 128 years since, we have repeatedly understood the rule of Wong Kim Ark to guarantee citizenship to all children born in the United States and subject to its power. We see no reason to depart from that view today."

In separate opinions, both Kavanaugh and Justice Samuel Alito suggested that if there was an appetite to limit birthright citizenship, as Mr. Trump attempted to do unilaterally, Congress could enact legislation doing so.

"Congress could — consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment — amend [the Immigration and Nationality Act] or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. But Congress has not yet done so," Kavanaugh wrote.

The heat dome is expected to build over the eastern two-thirds of the country, with New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., among cities expected to see record highs into the 100s, according to CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan. 

More than 100 record highs are expected to be set through Saturday night, along with about 250 record-warm overnight lows.

Map shows heat alerts

Extreme heat warnings are in effect for major cities in the central part of the U.S., including Nashville, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Des Moines, Chicago, and Detroit. Extreme heat watches are in effect for much of the Northeast, with temperatures over 100 degrees expected through Saturday.

Southern cities, including Dallas, Little Rock and Memphis, will also see dangerously high temperatures. 

High heat is forecast to last into next weekend across the Great Plains, the Southeast and the Mid-Atlantic.

The heat wave — defined as high temperatures reaching or exceeding 90 degrees for three consecutive days or more — is expanding across the central and eastern states. Almost the entire country will experience above-normal temperatures over the next week to 10 days.

Dangerous fire weather conditions

In the West, the Four Corners area of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona remains under dangerous fire weather conditions. Three firefighters died Saturday and two sustained burn injuries when they were overcome by flames from fast-moving wildfires in hot, windy conditions near the Colorado-Utah border.

The National Fire Information Center described the conditions as "extremely critical fire weather" that is rare for late June, with "high potential for new large fires." 

Storm threat and heat index

Severe thunderstorms remain a threat across parts of the northern Plains and Upper Midwest and New England, with flooding possible.

As temperatures climb, high humidity will lead to the heat index reaching 100 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit (40 to 43 Celsius), and even as high as 115 F, according to the weather service. Nightly lows in the 70s F (21 to 26 C) won't provide much relief.

The heat index, which factors in humidity as well as the actual temperature, provides a sense of how hot it really feels — and what's dangerous for prolonged exposure or strenuous activity.

Parts of the U.S., especially Phoenix, Las Vegas, central Texas, and much of the Southwest, were already experiencing temperatures around 100 degrees.

Health hazards in a heat dome

The first widespread heat wave of the summer will put millions of Americans under a heat dome, or areas of very strong high pressure that trap heat over a large area. The stagnant weather pattern results in weak winds and increased humidity. The phenomenon can last for days to weeks, making the heat feel insufferable and dangerous because the human body can't cool off as effectively if sweat stays on the skin.

During extreme temperatures, people are advised to limit outdoor activity, stay hydrated and ensure access to air-conditioning and other cooling areas, the weather service said. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says heat can impact anyone. Signs of overheating include muscle cramping, dizziness, unusually heavy sweating, shortness of breath, headaches, weakness and nausea.

The heat comes after Europe has been sizzling in a deadly heat wave for days. In France, more than 1,000 additional deaths were reported last week, the nation's public health agency said, along with dozens of drowning deaths as swimmers turned to the water for relief from the heat. Other countries including Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Denmark have also been facing a long stretch of unusually high temperatures.

"Of all climate-related impacts and hazards, heat is the biggest killer," Ine Vandecasteele, an urban adaptation expert with the European Environment Agency, told CBS News. 

Vandecasteele said simply installing more air conditioners can offer vulnerable people like those in hospitals and elderly people immediate relief, but she said that isn't a long-term solution.

"In the longer term, what happens is, installing more air conditioning actually emits more heat into our environment, so it will actually increase the speed of warming," she said.

In two of the most closely watched cases of its term, the Supreme Court upheld laws from West Virginia and Idaho that restrict transgender athletes' participation in school sports. The cases are known as West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh authored the opinion for the majority, writing that under Title IX — the landmark law that promotes equal opportunity in sports — and the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, schools can base eligibility for women and girls' sports teams on biological sex.

"Consistent with Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause, we hold that the States may maintain women's and girls' sports for biological females. They may determine eligibility for women's and girls' sports based on biological sex," Kavanaugh wrote. "The Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of women's and girls' sports throughout America."

The three liberal justices dissented from the majority's finding when it comes to the Equal Protection Clause and said it shouldn't have resolved that issue because of unanswered factual questions. The liberal wing of the court, however, agreed with the court's conservatives on Title IX. Justice Sonia Sotomayor read a summary of her dissent from the bench, a signal of strong disagreement with the majority's opinion.

"In the end, to the Court, the facts do not matter, even though the consequences are serious. The ban is absolute, so B.P.J. cannot practice on girls' teams, even if she would not take anyone's spot in an eventual competition, even if everyone who tries out for the team makes it, and even if having the chance to participate could aid immensely in treating B.P.J.'s gender dysphoria," she wrote, referring to the transgender girl at the center of the West Virginia case. "Sports, of course, are often zero sum, but the law need not and should not be."

The ruling protects similar laws in 25 states that have been enacted in recent years in response to high-profile instances of transgender athletes competing in girls' and women's sporting events. President Trump signed an executive order last year that prohibits educational programs that receive federal dollars from allowing transgender girls and women to play on the teams that align with their gender identity.

The NCAA and the International Olympic Committee have also updated their eligibility policies, limiting competition in women's events to only athletes assigned female at birth.

The ruling is the latest to land before the Supreme Court that tested transgender rights. In its last term, the high court upheld a Tennessee law that restricts access to certain medical treatments for minors experiencing gender dysphoria. Half of the states have similar measures in place. 

But in 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that a federal civil rights law known as Title VII prohibits an employer from firing a worker because of their sexual orientation or transgender status. Challengers to the athlete bans had argued that the court's reasoning in that case should apply to Title IX. But Kavanaugh wrote that the civil rights law and its 2020 ruling "are not relevant in this very different statutory and factual context."

"Title VII concerns employment, whereas Title IX as relevant here focuses on sports," he said. "The two factual contexts are vastly different."

Kavanaugh concluded his opinion urging respect for transgender athletes who desire to play sports, and he lauded women and girls' commitment to athletic competition.

"No student-athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified," he wrote.

The two transgender athletes who challenged the West Virginia and Idaho's laws, Becky Pepper-Jackson and Lindsay Hecox, respectively, were represented by the ACLU, which lamented the Supreme Court's decision.

"This is a heartbreaking ruling for our clients and transgender girls like them who've asked for nothing more than the same opportunities afforded to their peers." Joshua Block, senior counsel for the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Rights Project, said in a statement. "The reality is that the equality of transgender women and girls takes nothing away from, and in fact promotes, the equality of all women and girls. We will continue to advance the fundamental principle that all young people deserve equal opportunity to thrive and succeed."

The West Virginia law

West Virginia enacted its law, called the Save Women's Sports Act, in 2021. The measure requires athletic teams to be designated based on biological sex at birth and bars students assigned male at birth from playing in girls' and women's sports.

Before the law took effect, Pepper-Jackson, who wanted to compete on her school's girls cross-country and track teams, sued to block its enforcement. Pepper-Jackson began socially transitioning in third grade and has taken puberty-delaying medication and hormone therapy. She is now in high school.

A U.S. district court upheld West Virginia's law in 2023, but a federal appellate court in 2024 ruled that the measure unlawfully discriminates against Pepper-Jackson on the basis of sex.

At issue in the case was whether Title IX or the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause prevented a state from forbidding transgender girls and women from playing on the athletic teams that match their gender identity. The court ruled that they do not.

Lawyers for Pepper-Jackson had argued that the bans targeted only a small number of athletes — their client is the only transgender athlete in West Virginia, they said. Additionally, because of puberty-delaying medical treatment, Pepper-Jackson and other transgender girls like her do not have any biological athletic advantage over competitors designated female at birth, her lawyers said.

But state officials said the bans draw permissible distinctions between the sexes, classifications that are substantially related to their interest in protecting girls' and women's sports.

Title IX was enacted more than 50 years ago and prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. Two years after its passage, regulations were adopted to allow schools to operate sex-separated athletic teams, as well as separate locker rooms, restrooms and showers. Schools, though, must provide "equal athletic opportunity" for members of both sexes.

The Idaho law

The Supreme Court also weighed a challenge to a law from Idaho, which was the first state to forbid transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports. 

Hecox filed her lawsuit challenging Idaho's law after seeking to compete on the women's track and cross-country teams at Boise State University and argued that the state's ban was unconstitutional and a violation of Title IX. A federal appeals court ruled in 2024 that Idaho's ban is likely unconstitutional.

Cook County and Chicago were placed under the Extreme Heat Warning starting at 12 p.m. Monday, with the rest of the area under a Heat Advisory, but as of Tuesday morning all areas had been upgraded to an Extreme Heat Warning and the period of the alert has been extended.

An Extreme Heat Warning is in effect for Cook, Boone, DuPage, Will, DeKalb, Grundy, Kane, La Salle, Lake, Kendall, Kankakee, McHenry and Winnebago counties in Illinois and Lake, Newton, Jasper, Benton and Porter counties in northwest Indiana until midnight Friday.

The heat is putting stress on the area's power grid, as more than 1,000 households are without power Tuesday afternoon. 

ComEd crews were out working to get the power – and air conditioning – restored, and said they expected they'd run into some issues and so they prepared for the severe weather ahead of time.

"We've enhanced our staffing around the clock," said Valerie Coletti, senior vice president of ComEd distribution. "We've staged equipment around our service territory as well."

To keep your home cool efficiently and effectively, ComEd recommends ensuring the area around your vent is clear, checking that your fan is running counterclockwise, and turning your thermostat up seven to 10 degrees if you're gone for the day.

Because the humidity is pushing the heat index higher, it can be easier to become dehydrated. The Chicago Department of Public Health said 468 people visited emergency rooms last summer because of heat-related illnesses.

Seniors can be among the most vulnerable populations to heat, so My Block My Hood My City is collecting fans, bottles of water and donations Tuesday before dispatching volunteers to the homes of elderly residents who requested help on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at their headquarters at 540 W. 35th St.

"It seems like just hot weather, but that could turn dangerous real fast if we don't have no AC, and we can't get out to the place, so we put out a call called, you know, check on your people, especially your elders," said Jahmal Cole, founder of My Block My Hood My City. "As of this morning, we had over 750 elders reach out from all over Chicago."

If you'd like to help deliver these supplies, register on the My Block My Hood My City website. 

Find a cooling center in Chicago or Cook County

City officials said when temperatures climb into the 90s, cooling centers open, and other heat response efforts begin to ramp up to help protect vulnerable residents.

Cooling centers will be available throughout the week at community service centers, libraries, Chicago Park District fieldhouses, City College of Chicago facilities, and police stations during their hours of operation.

Six cooling centers across Chicago will be available, including:

• Auburn Gresham Center – 1140 W. 79th St.
• Garfield Center – 10 S. Kedzie Ave. 
• King Center – 4314 S. Cottage Grove Ave.
• North Area Center – 845 W. Wilson Ave.  
• South Chicago Center – 8650 S. Commercial Ave.  
• Trina Davila Center – 4312 W. North Ave.  

Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications also maintains a map of all cooling centers and public facilities in the city that can be used during a heat wave if you don't have reliable air conditioning. The map is interactive and lists all facilities, their locations and their hours.

Chicago Park District, Chicago Public Library, City Colleges of Chicago and Chicago Police District locations are also available to the public to cool down during the heat wave, during their hours of operation. 

Cook County has dozens of cooling centers that are open and available during the summer, and also often extends their hours during heat events.

Two locations are open 24 hours a day at all times: the Evanston cooling center at 1703 Orrington Avenue and the Hazel Crest Department of Fire and Rescue at 3000 W. 170th Place. 

Several other cooling centers are open 24/7 during heat waves:

• Orland Park Police Department at 15100 S. Ravinia Avenue
• Bettenhausen Rec Center in Tinley Park at 8125 W. 171st Street
• Tinley Park Police Department at 7850 W. 183rd Street
• Tinley Park Public Safety Building at 17355 S. 68th Court

Chicago's public swimming pools are also open for the season and can be used to cool down during the heat wave, but remember to stay hydrated and know that the hottest part of the day is still dangerous even if you're in water.

People experiencing homelessness can and should contact the city for help finding shelter during the heat wave.

Anyone seeking shelter may contact 311 to request shelter placement, OEMC said.

• The Shelter Placement and Resource Center (SPARC) – 2241 S. Halsted St.
• Provides shelter placement assistance and overflow beds for single adults.
• Not a cooling center or shelter—call ahead to ensure availability: (773) 825-3956
• The Salvation Army Emergency Assessment and Resource Center (EHARC) – 924 N. Christiana Ave.
• Provides shelter placement assistance and overflow beds for families with children under 18 years of age.
• Not a cooling center or shelter—call ahead to ensure availability: (872) 281-7610
• DFSS-funded shelters
• Most operate 24/7 year-round.
• DFSS typically activates all overnight shelters to operate 24/7 throughout extreme weather conditions.
• DFSS funds delegate agencies for expanded operations.

DFSS Homeless Outreach and Prevention (HOP) teams and street outreach partners will be out working to help unhoused Chicagoans as well, offering transportation to cooling centers, distributing essentials like water and hygiene supplies and providing food gift cards, bus cards and informational resources.     

Experts share tips on how to keep kids safe amid dangerous heat

The extreme heat warning is forcing Chicago Public Schools to move all its youth programs indoors this week.

However, staying inside isn't always an option, especially for families with young kids.

Experts say kids don't cool off the way adults do, and want parents to keep a few tips in mind amid the dangerous temperatures.

Tom Paparounis of Drive Goalkeeping says they're taking extra steps to keep kids and teens safe during activities.

"We make sure everyone is hydrated coming into camp and we manage the water breaks. We work for 30 to 45 minutes, then we take a break," he said. "Younger players don't regulate their body temperature as well as older players, so they don't know until they're overheated, so we make sure we get them off the field earlier than that."

Dr. Susan Fuchs has been with Lurie Children's Hospital for more than 30 years and says they learned lessons from previous heat waves.

"I remember being here for one of the other heat waves, which taught us a lot of lessons, and I think we need to heed the warnings everyone is giving us about the heat, humidity and temperatures this week," she said.

She advises parents not to take days like these as regular summer days, especially for babies and toddlers. She says babies do not sweat as much as adults.

"Don't feel like you have to do everything. Take it slower. Make sure you are always carrying some water or some electrolyte solutions with you," she said.

Know the symptoms of heat exhaustion vs. heatstroke and what to do

The greatest health risks during a heat wave are heat exhaustion and heatstroke.

It is easy to become overheated and dehydrated during excessively hot weather; it is essential you drink water and drinks with electrolytes to stay hydrated and stay safe during heat waves.

Heat exhaustion is milder than heatstroke, and can develop over days instead of minutes or hours. Heat exhaustion symptoms include headache, nausea, dizziness, weakness, irritability, thirst, heavy sweating, high body temperature and decreased urine output. 

To treat heat exhaustion, move into a cool indoor space or shade immediately, drink liquids, remove unnecessary clothing including socks and shoes, use cold water or a cold compress on the head, face and neck to cool down, and frequently sip cold water. The CDC also encourages calling 911 or taking the person to an urgent care clinic or the emergency room for treatment.

Symptoms of heatstroke include confusion, altered mental status, slurred speech, hot and dry skin or profuse sweating, very high body temperature, loss of consciousness, and very high body temperature. If treatment is delayed, it can quickly become fatal, the CDC warns.

If you are with someone experiencing heat stroke, call 911 immediately and stay with that person until paramedics arrive. Move the person into a shaded, cool area, remove their outer clothing and work to cool them down as quickly as possible, preferably with cold water or an ice bath. You can also get the skin wet, place cold, wet cloths on the skin or soak their clothing with cold water. You should also fan them to get air circulating around them which will help water and sweat evaporate and also help cool them down.

If you can, place cold, wet cloths or ice on their head, neck, in their armpits and on their groin to help cool them down faster.

It happened around 8:45 a.m. in the 4100 block of North Central Avenue in the Portage Park neighborhood.

Police said that a 13-year-old girl was walking southeast through Portage Park from the corner of Berteau and Central Avenues. Police said the girl saw a man with a gray or black dog walking northeast through the park, who attempted to lure the girl after getting her attention.

The girl went into a nearby building and alerted park officials. The man left the scene in an unknown direction, police said.

The suspect was described as a white man between 50 and 60 years of age, 5-foot-8 in height, with a gray goatee, and at the time was wearing a tan/brown T-shirt and shorts.

Anyone with information about the suspect or the incident is asked to contact Area 5 detectives at 312-746-6554 or submit an anonymous tip at CPDTIP.com, using reference number JK314535.

The McHenry County coroner said Officer Paul Viduya Jr. was found in the grass on the side of Charles Miller Road near the intersection with McHenry Avenue at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy conducted Tuesday morning found his cause of death was blunt force injury. A toxicology test is pending.

The Mundelein Police Department said Viduya was off duty at the time of the crash, and that his motorcycle was the only vehicle involved. The crash remains under investigation by the department.

"Officer Viduya dedicated his life to serving and protecting the Mundelein community. His unexpected passing is a heartbreaking loss for his family, friends, fellow officers, and all who had the privilege of knowing him," the department said in part in a statement.

Mundelein police said information regarding funeral services will be shared as it becomes available. 

At 9:10 p.m. Sunday, May 31, police pulled over Christian Wallace, 38, at a gas station at the Harrison Street and Austin Boulevard, along the border with Chicago's South Austin neighborhood. Wallace was alone in the vehicle, police said.

During the stop, the officer told Wallace to get out of the car, and performed a pat-down, police said at the time. During the pat-down, police said the officer found a gun hidden on the driver's body, police said at the time.

As seen in the video, the traffic stop started calmly. The officer explains why he stopped Wallace.

"You switched lanes without signaling, and then when you came in here… you signaled, you got to signal outside a hundred feet," the officer says.

But police said once the officer found the gun, a long physical struggle over control of the weapon began. Wallace ended up wrestling the gun back from the officer, police said, at which point the officer shot Wallace, police said at the time.

Bodycam footage shows the officer and Wallace struggling over the gun outside of the vehicle he was in at the gas station. The body cam video then goes black, which the officer later states it fell off. 

Oak Park police also released security cam and dashcam video of the altercation.

Wallace was taken to Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, where he died of his injuries less than an hour later. The officer was also taken to Loyola Medical Center in Maywood to be treated for injuries and was released early Monday morning.

However, the officer remains on medical leave for an injury suffered during the struggle.

As police release the video, Wallace's mother is decrying what happened to her son.

"That was my only son, and I'll never be able to see him again, never," said Denise Butler.

Wallace was himself the father to four children, all under the age of 12.

"He didn't deserve to be removed from this earth like that. It's not right," Butler said. "I just want justice for my son."

An attorney for Wallace said his rights were violated regardless of the fact that he had a gun.

"The video shows that Mr. Wallace was armed, and we acknowledge that, but the Constitution does not require perfection before it provides protection," said attorney Abby Bakos of Bakos Law.

Bakos was only able to view one camera recording of the incident before Tuesday. She represents the family and is now watching the rest of the video with the public.

Butler said she is not ready to watch it.

"Who wants to see their son get shot? Who wants to see that?" she said. "No one wants to see their child get shot, under no circumstances. That's tragic."

Bakos said she is planning to file a civil rights case against the Village of Oak Park in the coming days.   

The overhaul, made under the 2025 "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," will affect millions of people who take out loans to finance their education.

"These are the most changes we have seen at this scale in a very long time," said Sarah Austin, a policy analyst at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, a nonprofit membership organization.

The U.S. Department of Education described the overhaul as a way to streamline the student loan system, which currently consists of seven repayment plans, and rein in student loan debt, which stands at almost $1.9 trillion.

Borrowers enrolled in the Biden-era Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan are among those affected as the Trump administration moves to wind down the program and shift borrowers into new repayment options. Loan payments for the roughly 7.2 million people enrolled in SAVE have been on pause for two years as a legal battle over the program's fate played out.

Borrowers should talk to their loan servicers, and students should look to their financial aid office for assistance as they navigate the transition, experts said. They can also consult online calculators such as this one, from the New York state-funded Education Debt Consumer Assistance Program, to help determine which repayment option makes the most sense.

With so many changes ahead, borrowers need to stay on top of communications from their loan servicers, said Winston Berkman-Breen, the legal director of the advocacy group Protect Borrowers.

"If you have not been paying attention to your loans for four, five, six years, totally understandable. But now is the time to make sure your contact information is up to date," he said. "Make sure you have your login with studentaid.gov."

Here's what to know as the new changes go into effect.

New limits on student borrowing

New rules introduced under last year's "big beautiful" tax and spending bill impose stricter limits on how much students can borrow to finance their studies.

One major change is to the Parent PLUS loan program, which allows parents to take out a federal loan for their child's undergraduate education. Historically, parents could borrow up to the full cost of attending a school. Starting July 1, parents will be capped at $20,000 a year and $65,000 total per student.

New borrowing limits will also affect graduate students and those pursuing professional degrees. Grad students will still be able to take out up to $20,500 per year. But beginning July 1, a new cap will prevent them from taking out more than $100,000 for their degree.

The "big beautiful bill" also affects people pursuing professional degrees, including those in pharmacy, veterinary medicine, chiropractic, law, medicine, optometry, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, theology and clinical psychology, according to the Department of Education. Under the new rules, students in those fields are restricted to borrowing $50,000 per year and $200,000 total. 

That change has sparked an outcry from some professions excluded from the professional designation, including nursing, with advocates saying it could worsen the nation's nurse shortage. The Education Department has said 95% of nursing students won't be impacted by the borrowing cap. 

As of July 1, new student loan borrowers are blocked from Graduate PLUS loans, which allowed people to borrow as much as they needed to fund their degree. Current Grad PLUS borrowers will be grandfathered and will still be able to access the loans, according to EdSource.

Finally, aside from a few carveouts, anyone who gets a loan on or after July 1 will have a lifetime loan cap of $257,500, according to the Education Department.

"That's per borrower, so over the course of your educational experience, stacking undergrad and grad, that is going to be your cap," Berkman-Breen said.

Repayment options are shrinking

New loan borrowers

Beginning July 1, borrowers who take out a new federal student loan will have only two repayment options: the Tiered Standard Plan and a new income-driven repayment plan called the Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP.

Borrowers with existing loans who take out a new loan after July 1 will also be subject to the new rules. Once the new loan enters repayment, all of their federal loans must be repaid under one of the two new plans, Austin said.

Current borrowers

Current borrowers who do not take out new loans after July 1 can continue to access the existing repayment options, which include:

• Standard Repayment Plan
  
• Extended Repayment Plan
  
• Graduated Repayment Plan
  
• Income-Based Repayment (IBR)
  
• Pay As You Earn (PAYE)
  
• Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR)
  

Borrowers may also opt into the new Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP), according to Austin.

However, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act phases out the PAYE (Pay As You Earn) and ICR (Income-Contingent Repayment) plans. Borrowers enrolled in those programs must move to another repayment plan by July 1, 2028.

"They could choose from the existing plans (standard, extended, graduated, IBR) or they could enroll in RAP, if it is after July 1, 2026," Austin said. "They would not be eligible for the new Tiered Standard Plan."

Anyone enrolled in the standard, extended, graduated or IBR plans can stay put as long as they don't take out a new loan, according to Austin.

"Any of those existing plans that don't sunset in 2028, they can just continue to repay under those plans until they pay off their loans, as long as they don't borrow any new loans on or after July 1, 2026," she said.

SAVE borrowers face a separate transition

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act sunsets the SAVE plan in July 2028. But borrowers enrolled in SAVE will need to choose a new repayment plan before then, according to experts.

Loan servicers are expected to begin notifying SAVE borrowers on or around July 1 that they must select a new repayment option within 90 days, Austin said.

"If they do nothing in that 90-day period, then the loan servicer will automatically put them in the standard plan," Austin said.

SAVE borrowers may switch to RAP or to one of the remaining existing repayment plans. However, borrowers who move into PAYE or ICR would have to switch again before July 1, 2028, when those plans are eliminated.

Pell Grant rules are changing

The new tax law also tightens eligibility requirements for the Pell Grant program, the largest federal aid program for low-income students. Students who receive non-federal grants or scholarships up to or exceeding the cost of their attendance will no longer be eligible for additional funding through the Pell Grant program, Austin said.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act also closes what Austin referred to as the "Pellionaire loophole," which allowed students with low incomes but high assets to receive a Pell Grant. 

For example, under the previous rules, a borrower with $1 million in assets but an annual income of $10,000 could still qualify for a Pell Grant, Austin said. Borrowers report assets — including cash, savings, checking, the net worth of businesses, and the net worth of investments — when completing the FAFSA, which is used to apply for a Pell Grant. 

The tax law also expands Pell Grant eligibility to students enrolled in shorter-term workforce training programs. Programs in fields such as nursing assistance, early childhood education and automotive mechanics could qualify under the new rules.

Previously, workforce programs generally had to last at least 15 weeks and include 600 clock hours of instruction to be eligible for Pell Grant funding.

"Beginning on July 1, 2026, students will be able to receive Pell Grants for enrollment in high-quality, short-term educational programs that prepare them for high-skill, high-wage, and in-demand jobs," the Education Department said in a recent release.

In a brief order, the high court agreed to take up a pair of cases challenging local and state laws outlawing AR-15s and similar semi-automatic rifles. One involves an ordinance in Cook County, Illinois, and the other centers on Connecticut's law.

The justices will hear arguments in the cases in its next term, which begins in October.

The cases are the first in which the high court will weigh the legality of laws restricting access to certain types of firearms. In a landmark 2022 decision, the Supreme Court recognized for the first time that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to carry a gun in public for self defense. But the justices had — until now — declined to take up challenges involving bans on AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles in Illinois and Maryland, leaving the laws in place.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled that occassional marijuana users cannot be prohibited from having firearms, and it struck down a Hawaii measure that generally barred concealed carry permit holders from bringing their guns onto private property open to the public, unless they received permission from the owner.

The Connecticut AR-15 ban

One of the cases centers on Connecticut's laws that make it a crime to possess so-called assault weapons, including certain semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15. Connecticut first adopted an assault-weapon ban in 1993. The state tightened its restrictions after the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, when a gunman armed with an AR-15-style rifle and large-capacity magazines killed 26 children and teachers.

Residents can have a wide range of firearms, including many semiautomatic handguns, rifles and shotguns, according to the state. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia restrict access to semiautomatic weapons.

Two separate groups of plaintiffs, which include the National Association for Gun Rights and several Connecticut residents who want to own AR-15s, challenged the constitutionality of the restrictions, arguing their Second Amendment rights were violated.

In both cases, federal district judges declined to block the bans, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, which considered the challenges together, affirmed that decision. The three-judge panel found that Connecticut's ban is consistent with the country's historical tradition of firearms regulation, applying a new test for reviewing the constitutionality of gun laws that the Supreme Court set out in 2022.

The 2nd Circuit said in its decision that AR-style rifles are "dangerous and unusual" and "particularly suited for criminal violence." It also noted that Connecticut's ban still allows residents to own "many popular weapons, including semiautomatic weapons deemed to be less dangerous by the legislature for self-defense and other lawful purposes."

The gun owners appealed to the Supreme Court and argued that Connecticut's ban on AR-15s covers "the most popular rifle in the country," one that is owned by 10s of millions of Americans.

Cook County's law

Cook County, which includes Chicago, enacted its ordinance banning "assault weapons" nearly 20 years ago. Under the law, it is illegal to sell, transfer or possess semiautomatic rifles, including the AR-15 and AK-47, as well as rifles that are capable of accepting magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition and have certain features. Violators of the ban are subject to up to six months in prison and a minimum $5,000 fine.

In August 2021, two Cook County residents who want to acquire banned semiautomatic rifles, as well as two gun rights groups, filed a lawsuit arguing that the assault-weapons ban violates the Second Amendment.

While their case was pending, the Supreme Court issued its landmark June 2022 decision that recognized for the first time that the right to carry firearms extends to outside the home. The high court's ruling also set out a new framework for examining the constitutionality of gun laws, which requires the government to show that a restriction is rooted in the nation's history and tradition of firearms regulation.

Also during that time, the state of Illinois passed its own statewide assault-weapons ban, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit upheld. As a result, a federal district court rejected the challenge to Cook County's restriction on semiautomatic rifles. The 7th Circuit then upheld that decision.